We are from a time that uses a different system. Using our vast intelligence you would call this year Carrot4HaramBAE. Christmas no longer exists, but has been replaced with a jovial time of gifts, and peace for 100 of your years. I await death.

Redditors need to get over this idea that there are bots posting con/ev/99ht71084cda254cd8bac636[error]90eed67c04?fit=max[?script]&h=1536&w=1536&[pepsimax]s=63392362421505ddab0257cc2e05d786tent all over the site. We're all people here.

"Donald McKinley Glover Jr. is an American actor, comedian, singer, writer, producer, director, rapper, and DJ. He performs music under the stage name Childish Gambino and as a DJ under the name mcDJ. "

I had seen Childish Gambino before and just thought I had some inner racism "All black people look the same" thing going on and was disappointed in myself. Now I find out they are one and the same!

Thanks for setting me straight on that. I love his comedy and now I can enjoy his other stuff. He has a comedy bit where he talks about his old email name, which was, appropriately enough, donglover@something.com. He eventually changed it when people started razzing him about "dong lover."

The issue is that not all of those are indiscriminate killings. A lot are gang or drug related. Not saying that instantly makes it better, but I do think context is important. It's not like what happened today is happening every day. It should happen 0 times, I agree. Once again, I just think context is important not arguing for one side or the other.

And before people roll their eyes and go "oh god another one", Lindsay blows nearly every other video essayist out of the water with her extensive research and incredibly well articulated and thought out arguments. She's makes points and explains things I've never heard out of any other essayist, and I watch an unhealthy amount of them. She puts a lot of effort and thought into these videos. She literally went to New Zealand to interview cast and crew when doing her Hobbit videos. She well worth giving a watch.

how did Gambino manage to get people to take him seriously as a rapper when hes still got all the animatedness of 2006's Donald Glover in Derrick Comedy and an influence from what seems like Reggie Watts? don't get me wrong, incredibly talented dude. but it sorta blows my mind that people take him seriously when i cant shake the feeling that he doesnt even take HIMSELF seriously.

Him live, he's just so freaking COOL. Saw him a few months ago and by the end he was shirtless dripping in sweat closing to This is America maybe a week or two after it came out and it was fucking NUTS. I've never seen someone perform with such charisma, except Anderson. Paak and I got to see them in the same day.

I'll never forget the sound of thousands of people freaking out when the beginning hum of Worldstar came on. It was the loudest noise I've ever heard.

Create a show like Atlanta and write a song/create a video like This is America and you start being taken seriously. Superficially, they are entertaining and fun. The genius, though, is in the subtext. You see goofy animation, we see allusions to significant and dark points in American history that are currently being dredged back up to the forefront of society.

It's a common misconception that if your act is goofy, or you can play goofy well, that you are goofy and shouldn't be taken seriously. People like Donald Glover take their craft, goofy or not, very seriously and work tirelessly to perfect it.

In short: he's being taken seriously because he takes his work seriously, and, in doing so, he creates seriously good art.

I think maybe you missed the entire subtext of This is America? He's intentionally mimicking racial stereotypes. It's not him being goofy, the whole thing is very intentionally angry. If you google "Jim Crow" you can see that he's taking on the same postures as the caricature.

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